Music and voice in films and animation

Temporary player with some music excerpts from films, animation and events.

Sorry for the mess!
I will fix most of the messy things (names, volumes, playlist sequence)
at some point, as well as replace (to better quality/longer versions)
and add
some more tracks.

For some weird reason, music sometimes plays in wrong samplerate
(significantly faster) under AndrOS (found on certain versions of eeepc).

My productions are 100% copyright clean.
This means I only use my own or fully licenced samples or true analog synthesizers. I use only
hardware instruments and no software samplers, no effects plugins and
no software sythesizers (except my own), ruling out any copyright
infrigement regarding tools as well.

For composing music for games or demos on oldschool game consoles
and
computers, I have a wide variety of platforms (with their respective
sound hardware) available
for running a tracker or instant in-loop testing, including Commodore
C-64, SX-64 and Plus/4 (providing both 6581 and 8580 SID-s as well as
TED), Atari ST and STE (4MB ram
with dualboot TOS 1.62 & 2.06; YM2149+DMAPCM), ZX Spectrum(s)
(with YM2149/AY8910/AY8912), Tandy 1000SX (SN76489/SN76496), Sega
MasterSystem (odd version 1 with 315-5237 IO and 315-5246 VDP) and
MegaDrive/Genesis (with original YM2612, it's clone - SE-95 and
Megadrive-2
integrated 315-5660), authentic EMU-8000 & ASP on AWE32 with custom
dos tracking tools, wide variety of soundcards (with OPL2, OPL3 and
clones), including legendary demoscening Gravis Ultrasound etc.

For this amazing visual masterpiece I wrote a luxurious acoustic score on grand piano and harp with a tad of electronic spices.

Currently this one can only be seen, heard and experienced in film festivals, stay tuned!

A Girl's Soul

Genre: Thriller
Year: 2011Running time: 9 min

Producer: Otto Andersson
Director: Inese Verina
Camera: Anders Djupsjöbacka
Starring: Malin Olkkola and Joose MikkonenCountry of production: FinlandIt is a short film about a girl,
who is hitchhiking on the lonely road in
Ostrobotnia and gets into a trouble. Yet it's hard to decide which one
is
the "bad guy".

Genre: Adventure game
Year: Scheduled for the end of 2017Production company: Mult-Art
Country of production: Russia

You'll have to solve countless puzzles and riddles to find out why
and who is behind a ruthless kidnapping of a girl! It will be available
on STEAM and early version already had it's test run giving great
reviews. Check out single screen playable promo teaser
to hear what ambient music and magical atmosphere I did there. Arcade
machine there is playable as well! It's currently only in russian, yet
it is definitely worth clicking - things are rather self explanatory.
The game, though, will be available in many languages.

Not much info here yet!
Did an electronic downtempo / triphop for this one.

One day in Latvia. 20
years on.

Genre: Documentary
Year: 2008Running time: 53 min

Producer: Viesturs Koziols
Director: Inese Vēriņa

The
contemporary orchestra+electronica score has many underlying concepts,
that are matched to the pace of the movie itself. For example, the main
theme is built around a concept of ticking clock and represents the
unstoppable time flow. Instrument palette is rather wide, ranging from
several custom pianos, massive orchestra, acoustic guitar to electronic
percussion and bass.

Stereotypical
blond girl making her way to get married with a powerful and rich man.
From the Dictionary of the Sexual
Terms, "gold digger" or "gold miner"
is a young woman seeking or attaching herself to a rich and/or powerful
older man who will support her.

Music is fusion of all the nice
stuff we had in 80'ties and early 90'ties video game consoles. As
animation is more of a MegaDrive VDP look (as opposed to NES-style of
the first Gold Digger), I made sounds and "BGM" of that flavor as
well.
While sound effects are kept within YM2612+PSG boundaries, musical
instrument sounds are synthesized from very different worlds, including
FM (using a Yamaha TX81Z [OPZ YM2414] and FB01 [OPP YM2164]),
PSG (noise hihat and squares... a lot of squares!), multiple
2A03 DPCM (for percussion), some substractive and additive synthesizers.

This
animation is actually composed of pixel-by-pixel drawn tiles and
composited using a true old console game style tile map tools.
Music and effects are also in full spirit of the oldschool computing
world: composed entirely on tracker, with the sound generator limits
matching those of YM2149 / AY8912 combined with NES 2A03 (triangle
for bass, DMA 1bit DPCM percussion), yet with slightly more square
channels. Along with a graphics compositing tool, I made an
encoder and playback emulation of NES DMA DPCM with
preemphasis/deemphasis, so that drums sound authentic.

I did the on-location sound recording for this film. Here's the synopsis:
A young man and woman wander in a post-apocalyptic world. The man,
haunted by his past, is running away from his fate, while the woman
continues on, in hope of a future, to respect her fathers wish.

Documentary
“Lives of Moms” is a story about seven latvian women, all of whom are
mothers. Film tells the story about their daily life in a poetic
manner, while moms share their thoughts on how it is to be a mother.

Director: Inese
Verina
Story and animation: Inese Verina
I have to confess about the music that this short film has. A
really shameful confession.
When
this short film went into production, I did a simple temporary track
for it as a tempo reference for the animation. It is somewhere around
what I had in mind for it, but in a rough sketch quality. However,
everybody found it to be nice and fitting as weird as it was. So,
due to
everybody liking it as it is, lack of free time (the usual lame excuse)
and me being lazy as hell (now one that is sincere), this finished
short film actually features the same first temporary tempo reference
track. Enjoy this weird clip and may the force of 8 bits be with you! :)

There was an 18 minute musical piece (a loop) synchronised with clockwork visuals, projected on government building.
A variety of mechanical percussive clockwork sounds, combined with an
ever changing pad textures and a bit of orchestra and piano.

The Saeima participated in the light festival Staro Rīga (Shining Riga)
with an audio-visual history of the fundamental values enshrined in the
Constitution adopted 90 years ago.
The Saeima is the parliament of the Republic of Latvia.

The film is shot in stereoscopic 3D with animator and artist Karlis
Vitols, short film director Peteris Rozitis, actor and director Didzis
Eglītis, and Romanian director Adina Istrate. Riga-2041 is a
science fiction film, composed of several stories and inspired by the
stylistics of the sci-fi genre of the 1950's.

Sorry for the temporary mess! Soon
I will add/update some missing links as well as add more entries and pictures.
Some of the entries here will someday finally get their deserved details pages with higher resolution shots.